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CHAPTER 1 - MISSION PLANNING Flashcards

1
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What is the default planning time?

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Brief time minus 2 hours

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What is the KC-130 mission?

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Support the MAGTF commander by providing air-to-air refueling, assault support, and close air support, day or night under all weather conditions during expeditionary, joint, or combined operations

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What are some threat factors?

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  • mobility of the system
  • guidance type
  • range of the weapon
  • range of the acquisition radar
  • command and control
  • day vs night operations
  • number of missiles and rate of fire
  • weather limitations
  • weapon terminal guidance
  • weapon fusing & fragmentation pattern
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What altitude and type of terrain should you plan the flight in mission planning?

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Highest altitude that still denies detection

Selected high, rugged, and vegetated terrain

Rough terrain decreases threat mobility, heavy vegetation restricts field of fire, low altitude enhances terrain masking

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What are the 3 significant radar threat vulnerabilities that should be exploited in mission planning?

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Limits on maximum range

Degraded low-level detection capabilities because of earths curvature (radar horizon)

Masking properties of obstructions between the antenna and the target aircraft

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EMCON 1

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Any and all emitters are authorized

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EMCON 2

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All emitter are authorized. Essential radio transmissions for flight safety may be made.

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EMCON 3

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Radio silent. The use of other emitters is authorized unless prohibited by supported operations or plan

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EMCON 4

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No emitters will be used unless specifically authorized by the supported plan (ATO, ROE, operations plan, safe passage procedures, or other mission directive)

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What does a bullseye do?

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Provides a method of passing information between aircrews, other aircraft, and command and control assets in a clear, concise and secure manner.

Is a specified point on the ground and is given a name

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What are the two types of bullseyes?

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Mission employment bullseye - employed for threat reference

SARDOT bullseye - an isolated person uses to identify his location in the battle space

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What is Detection-Free Altitude (DFA)?

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highest altitude a/c can transit a point and remain below the radar’s coverage

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What are the 3 major subdivisions in Electronic Warfare (EW)?

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EA - electronic attack
EP - electronic protection
ES - electronic support

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Define Electronic Attack (EA)

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focuses on the use of EM or directed energy to attack personnel, facilities, or equipment with the intent of degrading, neutralizing, or destroying enemy combat capabilities

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What is defensive EA? Offensive EA?

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Defensive - electronic jamming in response to an attack, which is unplanned but meant to disrupt enemy capabilities

Offensive - planned and electronic jamming designed to disrupt enemy capes

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Define Electronic Protection (EP)

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action taken to protect personnel, facilities, or equipment from any effects of friendly or enemy employment of EW

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What is the most common form of EA countermeasure?

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IADS (integrated air defense system)

using multiple freqs and radars to minimize EAs effectiveness

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Define Electronic Support (ES)

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focuses on surveillance of EMS that directly supports an operational commander’s EM information that in turn supports immediate decision-making

19
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What does stand-off jamming do?

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saturates the ground radar with noise and masks the presence and location of an actual strike force

20
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What are the 2 types of radars that the ANTTP discuss?

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Direct Threat

Indirect Threat

21
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Describe Direct Threat Radars

What 2 types are they divided into?

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  • supply information directly to weapon systems capable of engaging/destroying a/c
  • operate at higher frequencies

Active Threat & Passive Threat

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Describe Active Threat Radars

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involved acquiring, locking-on, and tracking the target

signal characteristics and narrow beam width of most direct threat radars are ideal for precision tracking applications

23
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Describe Passive Threat Radars

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using receive-only modes, TTR can passively track a/c radar emissions and obtain azimuth and elevation data

significant threat bc it is virtually impossible to detect

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What are the 2 categories of passive threat radars?

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  1. systems that require a/c emissions (eg. RAMONA)

2. systems that use disturbances to the energy in the ambient EM environment to track a/c

25
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Describe Indirect Threat Radars

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  • may not be an immediate threat but are important since they alert the IADS to a/c’s presence
  • may be used to vector airborne interceptors or as a queuing source for SAM and ADA systems
26
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What are 3 types of indirect threat radars?

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EW - early warning
HF - height finder
ACQ - acquisition

27
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Describe EW radars

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  • high-powered, long-range
  • main purpose is early detection
  • provide approx. range, azimuth, elevation for IADS
  • may extend to 300 NM
  • generally use a 360 degree scan and operate at lower freqs
28
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Describe HF radars

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  • provide target altitude

- most receive azimuth data from EW radars and then conduct a vertical scan along that azimuth

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Describe ACQ radars

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  • dedicated to specific weapon systems such as ADA or SAM
  • similar in function to EW, providing range & azimuth to ground weapon system
  • range & azimuth resolution better and scan faster than EW
  • provides more accurate target position
  • detection range much smaller than EW
  • operate at or above EW radar freqs but below most direct threat radar freqs
30
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What consists of a Ground-Controlled Intercept (GCI) site

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an HF radar may be combined with an EW radar

31
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What does an GCI site do?

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relays target information to airborne interceptors

32
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What is radar resolution?

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measurement of the radar’s ability to separate targets that are close together in range, azimuth, or elevation into individual returns

33
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Does radar resolution get poorer with a wider or narrower beam width?

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wider

34
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Are emissions worse in radar dead zones or radar coverage zones?

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radar dead zones

they may be refracted and reflected off the surface of the earth or layers of atmosphere, hostile ES systems may detect them even though a/c remains terrain masked

35
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What is MIJI?

Which are deliberate?

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Meaconing, Intrusion, Jamming - deliberate

Interference - unintentional

36
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What is meaconing?

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system of receiving radio beacon signals from NAVAIDs and rebroadcasting them on the same frequency to confuse navigation

enemy conducts meaconing ops to prevent a/c from arriving at their intended targets/destinations

37
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What is intrusion?

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intentionally inserting EM energy into transmission paths in any manner

occurs when enemy inserts false information into our receiver paths

38
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What is jamming/spoofing?

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deliberately radiating, re-radiating, or reflecting EM energy to impair the use of electronic devices, equipment, or systems

39
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What is interference?

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unintentional disruption of use of radios, radars, NAVAIDs, etc

civilian broadcast may interfere w/ military comms

40
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What should the mission statement be based on?

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the objective

41
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Urgent precedence is used for what only?

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CASEVAC

42
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What is L-Hour?

H-Hour?

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L-Hour = landing hour for an assault
H-Hour = commencement of hostilities, crossing the line of departure
43
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What is chattermark?

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the alternate frequency roll plan if the primary frequency is unusable due to inference

44
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What is bead window?

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the passing of sensitive information over an open frequency

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